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Secular explanations for ghost sightings

Published 29 November 2017

From
Bryn Glover, Kirkby Malzeard, North Yorkshire, UK

Young informs us of the rather surprising fact that belief in ghosts has risen in recent decades. Considering the growing billions of humans who now walk around all day long with smartphones capable of taking very high-quality photographs under all manner of lighting conditions, I would have thought that the singular and complete absence of any credible picture of either ghosts or UFOs would have been sufficient to kill belief in them.